Old pains, new demons: Thinking torture and dignity today July 7, 2017 7 mins read Humanitarian Action / Interviews / Torture Brad Evans What is torture today? How should we respond to it? On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, ...
‘Supersoldiers’: Ethical concerns in human enhancement technologies July 3, 2017 7 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Adam Henschke Modern technologies that actively seek to combine bio, nano, info and neuro elements can give us the ability to ‘enhance’ human beings in ...
What You Need to Know About Urban War June 22, 2017 7 mins read Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Primers Trevor Keck We have seen extraordinary suffering in urban wars in the Middle East in recent years. We have heard stories of people in besieged ...
Values worth fighting for: The Additional Protocols at 40 June 8, 2017 8 mins read Jérôme Massé & Yves Sandoz Today, the Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 turn 40. Looking at the road travelled and the way ahead, they stand ...
A global ban on nuclear weapons: Are we there yet? May 24, 2017 12 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / Weapons Melina Lito In the heart of the Cold War, nuclear weapons were the central issue of international peace and security debates, with a devastating nuclear ...
The Thirty Years’ War: The first modern war? May 23, 2017 15 mins read Pascal Daudin In 1618, the first in a series of conflicts broke out in Northern Europe, sparking three decades of violence, famine and disease that ...
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Space law revisited (3/3): The regime of international liability in space April 27, 2017 10 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Pavle Kilibarda Outer space is becoming an arena for technological shows of force – whether by deployment of spy satellites or testing of weapons. What ...
Fighting together: Obligations and opportunities in partnered warfare March 28, 2017 10 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict / Partnering in Warfare Cordula Droege & David Tuck Partnered warfare — i.e. activities in support of Parties to armed conflict—is a reality that demands attention. For civilians, the sick, the wounded and for ...
War in cities: Attackers have rules to follow. What about defenders? March 16, 2017 8 mins read Analysis / Law and Conflict Eric Talbot Jensen An attacker can commit grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, but the defender — who is in the best position to protect civilians — faces no such ...
IHL and Islam: An overview March 14, 2017 22 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Islamic Law / Law and Conflict / Primers / Religion Ahmed Al-Dawoody With armed conflicts taking place in so many parts of the Muslim world, the Islamic ...
War in cities: The ‘reverberating effects’ of explosive weapons March 2, 2017 9 mins read Analysis / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict Ellen Nohle & Isabel Robinson Recent armed conflicts have demonstrated the devastating humanitarian impact of using explosive weapons with wide-area effects in populated areas. This is due not ...
